Stove



ALBIoN BANsoM, or ALBANY, NEW YoRKf Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,522, dated December 20,` `1859.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBION RANsoM, of the city of Albany, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Stoves; and I declare the following specification, with the drawings hereto attached as a part of the same,

j to be a full and perfect description of my invention.`

In the construction of stoves whose entire bodies, or whose upper chambers from which the smoke and gases pass off are made of sheet iron, in order to lit them for the proper adjustment of smoke pipes, itis customary, as shown in Fig. l, (which is a vertical section of a stove,) to attach to the opening for the eXit of smoke a short cast iron collar Z9, o, having a flange a by which it can be riveted or bolted to the stove; upon which collar the smoke pipe is slipped projecting horizontally to the chimney whenever it is intended to carry off the smoke by a direct and short exit. But if it be desirable, which is the most usual case to carry a pipe upward, then it is attached through the medium of a sheet iron elbow c, d, e. The disadvantages of this arrangement are, 1, the expense of the combined cast iron collar and sheet iron elbow; 2d, the tendency of the elbow to sag down from the weight of the upright pipe affixed to it, requiring an eXtra stay for its support; 3d, the deposition of the acrid matters formed by the union of the condensed moisture `and gases, soot and ashes within the elbow, which soon destroys the sheet iron fabric;

To correct these evils is the object of my invention, which is the employment, in place of the collar now in use, of a cast iron hood, as shown in Fig. 2 in perspective, and in Fig. 3 as attached to a sheet iron stove A,A, the representation being in section through the middle of the stove and hood.

The form of the heed `wni `te `mainly his. j l derstood from the drawings` It has a flange l f, f, by which it is to be secured to the stove,

and on its upper surface a projecting collar `1 n for the reception ofthe lowerfend `of aff stovepipe. Its bottom surface is curved with an easy slope from the stove upward for the" j easy passage of the smoke,as lwell as to perff 3 mit the downward flow into the fire of `any j v fluid that may be `formed within` the pipe fm1 `1 and drip down into the hood. In order to"` dispose of this iiuid the hood has from `its lower back edge a smallfspout orgutterjg projecting in such manner as `to pass anyf thing from its `bottom surfaceinto the fire clear of the back of thestove, thus preventl- 'l j so 1 ing the corrosion of the metal.`

The advantages tobederived fromfthel` use of the separate hood farezItswcheapness 31 as compared with f the combination` of `the w j 3;

cast iron collar and sheet iron elbow. Its l M rmness and nonliabilitytolsagldown from` the weight of superincumbentpipe. Itsnon-` liability to corrosion.` Theconvenience of l its adaptation to any desiredposition upon the body of the stove.` j l I do not claim the form `ofthe hood as an exit passage for the productsof combustion, Q such form being now Inuse least solid with p and as part of stove plates gli but Idoclaim- Y i The application 5to anduse with sheet" or` thin metal stoves, of an independent hood if flue, formed and Iftted` forI attachment; to f such stoves` as described, `and for the pur- 1 poses set forth in the above specification. i

l ALBIONBANsoM.` QQ;

Witnesses: l.

A. V. DEWITT, RUTH VARIoK .DEWIT'L 

